What is nothingness? Could Parmenides have been correct in positing that to exist is to think, so we cannot think about nothingness because we cannot think about what does not exist.
I believe that Paremenides has a point: to think is to be, but existence is more than that too. With that in mind, it seems likely that nothingness exists, even though it is the lack of, the end of, or absence of Being. This self-contradiction is absurd and yet it is reality, I believe. I cannot prove it, but I sense that it is so.
Nothingness might just be empty space or pure emptiness, a lack of objects or existents occupying said space and time.
Is Nothingness possibly just primordial universe before the Big Bang, chaos and silence and stuff until the Big Bang, God and cosmos handed us the ordered universe. I favor this viewpoint best.
Or is Nothingness the opposite realm to Everythingness/the Fate/the One, God vs. Satan, or Life versus Death? Is Nothingness Death? In part, yes.
If there is no God, no spiritual realm, only this material universe, then when we die that is it.
If there is no objective reality, can all we know is our own consciousness, our own concepts that grow out of our experiences with the world alleged to exist out there, is Nothingness what is beyond our subjective consciousness.?
Are we alone in the universe, with no other intelligent species our there, alone in a cold, cruel, indifferent universe unhurried and unconcerned about petty, mortal humans and their local issues and probelms? I doubt it, for I believe that God exists, and the universe can be cold, indifferent, meaningless and unintelligible, but by believing in and talking to Go, we can find positive meaning and hope despite mortality, doubt and Nothingness constantly eating away at our confidence, our self-esteem, our sense of hope.
We can create love, knowledge and expand the cosmos as part of God's kingdom builders.
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